My original question:
Aharon> I am using vdump. My problem is that I have not found
Aharon> a way to get vrestore to tell me the time, date, and file
Aharon> system that is backed up in the dump file.
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The solution (from Winfried Huber <win_at_tukan.ffb.eunet.de>)
run "vrestore -i". You will get something like (note the date) ...
tukan#366# vrestore -i
vrestore: Date of the vdump save-set: Sun Jan 28 20:53:15 1996
(/)
... next do "ls", and you will get something like ...
(/) ls
.:
#.mrg..DXsession .Xauthority
.cshrc .cshrc.bak
(/)
... now you have to guess which file system got dumped here. It's
painful, but true: The date of the dump is recorded in the header, but
not the name of the file system or path that is dumped here. I
invested some time to analyze a dump tape to verify this.
But there is a easy workaround for this: Simply generate a uniqe
(empty) file describing the node name and the path in every mount
point, e.g. for /usr/users on host tukan something like
"tukan_usr_users", and your problem is solved, for future dumps...
But note that vdump is not restricted to dump entire file systems, you
may restrict vdump to a directory tree using the "-D" switch.
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Thanks to:
alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Dr. File System's Home for Wayward Inodes.)
Carlos Sanchez <csanchez_at_cirp.es>
Winfried Huber <win_at_tukan.ffb.eunet.de>
Andrew Gallatin <gallatin_at_isds.Duke.EDU>
David Gadbois <gadbois_at_cyc.com>
Murat Balci <balci_at_bornova.ege.edu.tr>
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Received on Sun Feb 25 1996 - 12:26:05 NZDT